Cineriz
Directed by Mario Monicelli
My rating: 2.5 stars out of 4
IMDb Wikipedia
(Rarefilmm)
Retiring accountant Alberto Sordi uses his position to try to get his dimwitted son a job. He goes as far as joining a secret society with his coworkers, in a hilarious scene mocking the Masonic Lodge. It appears he is succeeding, until his son is shot and killed when they stumble on a robbery. His wife has a stroke and becomes a wheelchair bound mute after the news. Sordi attends lineups with the police, and at the second one recognizes the killer. Instead of telling the police he follows the killer to his home, then knocks him unconscious and takes him to his remote fishing shack. He proceeds to torture him, knocks him out again, and even brings his wife to see him. Both is wife and the prisoner die from the shock. He buries the body and quietly retires. All seems back to normal until he has a road rage encounter with another youth, and stalks him down the street. Sordi's transformation from meek accountant to vengeful killer is reminiscent of Charles Bronson in Deathwish, but Sordi is no Bronson and as a result it is just not as believable. The torture scenes are brutal.
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